Geographies of Law

Geographies of Law

Contents of Geographies of Law

Contents of this subject matter include:

• Part 1 – Introduction; Research project skills; how to write a project outline; legal geography as a research methodology. 2. – Key concepts in legal geography (jurisdiction, property, scale, relationality, materiality, Anthropocene, post-human, governance).

  3. – Key concepts in legal geography continued (earth systems, laws of thermodynamics and hydrology).

• Part 2 4. – Water: Federalism, Jurisdiction and Hydrology (MDB Plan, Water Trigger). 5. – Land: Property, Relationality and Place (classification of land, NSW mining leases, digenous Sovereignty).

  6. – Habitat: Cities, Ruralities and Food (biodiversity legislation, SRLUPs, regulation of public space).

  7. – Planet: Globalization, Scale and Anthropocene (multiscalarity, governance theory and post-humanism).